Mitosis in Cancer Cells
Name _____________________________
Date _____________________________
Per ___
Use the table to answer the following questions.
Time for Mitosis of Normal and Cancerous Chicken Stomach Cells
Interphase
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
Cytokinesis
Normal chicken stomach cells
in minutes
120
60
10
3
2
10
Cancerous chicken stomach
cells in minutes
16
15
2
1
1
2
1. Which phase requires the longest time for completion?______________________
2. What important changes occur in the nucleus during the longest phase?
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3. Which phase requires the next longest time for completion? __________________
Why do you think this is so? ____________________________________________
4. Which phase requires the shortest time for completion? ______________________
5. How do cancer cells differ from normal cells in time spent for each phase?
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6. Cancer is abnormal mitosis. In what ways might it be abnormal with respect to what
happens in each phase of mitosis?
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7. What effect might this have on the cells themselves?
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